Developmental Psychology Review Sheet
- Explain why the correlation between authoratative parenting and social competence does not necessarily reveal cause and effect. In other words, what are some other explanations (besides the possibility that parenting style causes social competence)?
- What was the specific relavance of Harry Harlow’s experiment?
- What evidence suggests that newborns are born to be social?
- True or false:
a)We are born with nearly all the brain cells we will ever have. ___
b)All brain development is complete by birth. ___
c)As people become older, they also becomes less intelligent because their brains shrink ___
d)Most married women will spend one third of their lives without their spouses. ___
e)Scientists have learned the virtually all of our behaviors and abilities are determined by the environment in which we are raised. ___
f)Girls mature earlier than boys ___
g)All children go through the same stages at the same time___
h)Most people, regardless of their age, can learn to speak a foreign language fluently without an accent___
i)As men age, they tend to become more masculine in their characteristics, which explains why they often become grouchier. ___
j)The concept of adolescence is a fairly new one. A hundred years ago, children typically left home at puberty and began training for their life’s work. ___
k)During the entire period of adolescence, growth takes place at a steady rate. ___
l)Marital satisfaction is typically highest in people’s 40s because their children are older and parents have more freedom. ___
- Define schema.
- Assume a person has the schema, “Abstract art is easy to make; any child could do it.” Then, they are confronted with a scenario in which they are asked to create abstract art and find that their painting is not very good.
If they assimilate, they might think…
If they accommodate, they might think…
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- Give an example of a statement that each of the following types of parents might say to their children:
Authoratative:
Authoratarian:
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Permissive:
- Give an example of how a baby would exhibit a lack of object permanence.
- How would a baby exhibit a self-concept?
- Into which stage of Piaget’s developmental theory do each of the following fit:
a)A child saying “that’s my star in the sky!”
b)A child getting anxious if someone other than their parent holds them.
c)The ability to do a liquid conservation test.
d)The ability to pretend.
e)The ability to add, subtract, and do multiplication tables.
- In what stage of moral development would the following comment be indicative: Can I “buy” their way into heaven by giving money to a church?
- What type of development did each of the stage theorists that we discussed focus on?
a)Erikson:
b)Kohlberg:
c)Piaget:
- According to these three theorists, at what stages of development would a three year old be?
- According to these three theorists, at what stage of development would a fourteen year old be?